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Sep 11, 2008 · The Coen brothers' "Burn After Reading" is a screwball comedy that occasionally becomes something more. The characters are zany, the plot coils upon itself with dizzy zeal, and the roles seem like a perfect fit for the actors -- yes, even Brad Pitt, as Chad, a gum-chewing, fuzzy-headed physical fitness instructor.
Sep 12, 2008 · With Burn After Reading, the Coen Brothers have crafted another clever comedy/thriller with an outlandish plot and memorable characters. Read Critics Reviews
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Burn After Reading Reviews. In setting up a spy thriller that, given the idiocy of its characters, just-so-happens to proceed like a comedy, the Coens’ best humorist qualities emerge after...
Sep 12, 2008 · Burn After Reading: Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. With George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich. A disk containing mysterious information from a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous and daft gym employees who attempt to sell it.
"Burn After Reading" shows what happens when a couple of bungling amateurs attempt to beat the big boys of the C.I.A. at their own game. Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand are the D.C.-based health club workers who stumble across a computer disc that they believe contains top secret, classified information.
Sep 12, 2008 · Burn After Reading is in many ways a cruel movie, but that is not what separates it from most contemporary American comedy, which is, after all, largely predicated on pain and humiliation....
Sep 12, 2008 · Chicago Reader. After the portentous "No Country for Old Men," Joel and Ethan Coen return to their trademark brand of cruel, misanthropic farce, and for dark laughs and hurtling narrative momentum this spy caper is their best work since "Fargo." Read More. By J.R. Jones FULL REVIEW.
Aug 26, 2008 · ‘Burn After Reading’: Film Review. The Coen brothers have taken some of cinema's top and most expensive actors and chucked them into looney-tunes roles in a thriller set in and about...
Movie Review. Joel and Ethan Coen have made a career of crafting quirky, dark films that blend equal parts absurdity and shock value. And seemingly unaffected by the fact that their No Country for Old Men won a Best Picture Oscar last year, they’ve done so again with Burn After Reading— a movie whose characters put the odd in oddball.
Sep 9, 2008 · If No Country for Old Men is a haunting tale of evil personified in a modern world where life is no longer valued, then Burn After Reading is an existentialist lark, lighter in style and...
